Truth is relative

Bed bugs are eusocial creatures like ants, bees, and mole-rats, and if you find and kill the queen the colony will quickly die out

To this day there are, largely unenforced, laws about how laundry is to be dried, folded, and stored with the common "fold in half and half again" method being explicitly forbidden.

There is a black market specifically for cattle

The first example of a 'paperclip' predates paper by over 1000 years and was originally created to hold medicinal leaves together

Calling someone a chicken for being cowardly is not because chickens are scared easily but because of the old English word "Cicen" which means 'to be afraid'

Oscar wilde coined the term "love at first sight" when referring to every gentleman he had ever met

Leaving the house without a hat was made illegal in England in 1574 because of the alarming rise in head lice after it became popular to attend Shakespeare's plays in very close proximity to each other

Whales, though completely colour-blind, dream in vivid colours

Marvel's first draft of Spider Man was called Doctor Arachnid and had powers that included trapping criminals in webs, paralysing with a sting, and draining life energy from enemies. This version was deemed to be too gory for Peter Parker's storyline and was cut.

It's an urban myth that santa is red because of coca cola, it's actually because in the original tale Sinta Klaus was gored by a boar, staining the snow and his white clothing scarlet

Celebrities who get hired under stage names are required to get a second birth certificate so they can sign legally binding contracts

More pigeons have received medals for bravery during wartime than humans

The rose is considered the flower of love because it's name is Eros backwards

Ducks don't actually have legs, they just have elongated ankles

Following the first release of sesame Street elmo was banned by the Catholic Church because they saw him as a satanic symbol being worshipped as an idol